Indoor-golf putting-cup.



C. G. LUEDER.

INDOOR GOLF PUTTING CUP.

APPLICATION FILED 33.17, 1914.

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1 ,I'OLZOB Specification of Letters Patent Patented June 23,

Application filed February 17, 191;. sentinel sienna To all whom.- z't may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL G. Leanna,- a citizen of the United- States of America, and residentof the city of Mount Vernon, county of Westchester, State of- New York, have invented a new and useful Indoor-Golf Putting-Cup, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to anindoorgolf putting cup and is designed to produce a device by means of which the golfer may practise putting indoors in such manner that such practice will result in improvement of his play upon the actual putting green. Heretofore, as far as I am aware, the devices said to be adapted for this purpose have fallen short of re uirements for number of reasons so that t e practice 01- playing with such devices has not suificiently simulated the conditions of real playing. and hence have not accomplished the purpose of improving or enlarging the skill of the player in his actual play upon the putting green.

In the following I have described, in connection with the accompanying drawing, one form of device embodying the features of my invention.

The drawing illustrates an embodiment of my invention in perspective view.

In said drawing 1 indicates a disk of any suitable material such as brass, tin, wood, papier mach, etc, formed with 2. putting cup 2 located centrally therein. The putting cup is designed to be of the same diameter as the actual putting cup on the green. In order to form a cup of sufficient depth to retain the ball and because the device is adapted generally to sit flatly upon the floor or carpet so that an actual depression in the floor is iuexpedient, the disk slopes slightly upward and inward from its outer periphery to the perimeter of the cup. This slope should preferably be as slight as possible, just sufficient to give depth to the cup and interfering with the travel of the ball, or rather retarding the speed of the ball in traveling thereover, as little as possible. The edge of the cup may be provided with a down turned flange 3 if desired, the plane of the bottom of the flange being even with or at any rate not beneath the plane of the disk 1.

4, 4, indicate standards supported by disk 1 at diametrically opposite points of the disk, said; standards in turn supporting. a bearing rod 5 preferably providedwith coll'arsor stops- 6, 6,'locat ed above the opposite edges of the cup 1 7-. is acounterweight member depending from rod 5 on-' which it is journaled by means of ears 8, 8, clasping rod- 5 adjacent a direction more or less rectilinearly to said counterweight member, will strike the same init's flight. The weight of the counterweight member 7 and the force necessary to cause it to swing are so taken into consideratlon that actual conditions; onthe putting-green are closely simulated. For ex ample: if the ball has been played so that normally, on the putting green, it would drop into the cup, then it would either drop into the cup of my device without striking the counterweight member or if it struck said member it would not cause said coun-- terweight member to swing sufliciently to permit the ball to pass by; if the ball was traveling fast enough to carry it over the cup but the speed was such that it would drop by gravity so as to strike the opposite side of the cup and bound back into the cup, then the counterweight member would swing only sufficiently to permit the ball to fall or come to a stop in the cup 2; if however, the speed of the ball was such that it would normally be carried over the cup then the counterweight member would swing sufiicieutly to permit the ball to clear the cup and roll on beyond it. In other words my counterweight device is designed to compensate for the shallowness of the cup so that the shallow cup 2 in combination with said counterweight member will have the same effect upon a ball as would the actual putting cup on the green. There is nothing to retard the speed of the ball until it actually passes beyond the edge of the cup and the impact against the counterweight member will either permit the ball to remain in the cup 2 or to pass completely over it just as would occur in the actual game.

Rod 5 may be provided with a socket 9 over the center of the cup in which socket a flag may be placed to indicate center. It will be noted that in my device the cup is free from rigid obstruction. With my device also, the game may be played from either side.

In actual practice, I have ascertained that with the counterweight properly loaded and mounted the simulation of the real putting green action is almost if not quite exact. In the claims where I use the word aperture I mean to include not only an opening entirely through the base or disk 1 but also a cup inthe form of a shallow socket or of a depression in the base even though such socket or depression have a bottom thereto.

It is obvious that changes in construction and arrangement of parts may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention and I do not restrict myself further than the scope of the ap ended claims demand.

What I claim is 1. An indoor golf putting cup comprising a base, an aperture therein and a counterweight member mounted to swing centrally over said aperture.

2. An indoor golf puttin cup comprising a base, a shallow aperture t erein and means above said aperture to compensate for the shallowness thereof.

3. An indoor golf putting cup comprisingv a disk shaped base, a central aperture therein, standards mounted on said base diametrically opposite each other,.a rod carried by said standards and a counterweight member carried by said rod that said member may be given a swinging movement relative to said rod over said aperture.

4. An indoor golf putting cup comprising a disk shaped base, a central aperture therein and a counterweight member in the form of a semisector adapted to swing diametrically over said aperture.

5. An indoor golf putting cup comprising a disk shaped base inclining upward and inward, an entirely unobstructed central aperture in said base, and a swinging counterweight member mounted diametrically of said aperture.

In testimony whereof I- have signed this specification in the presence of two su'bscribing witnesses.

CARL G. LUEDER. WVitnesses:

K. G. LE ARI), S. M. BAEDER. 

